Job Title: Technical Lead

Company Name: Cerby

Job Url: https://ats.rippling.com/en-GB/cerby/jobs/7171c470-4c7c-4215-9b2a-26ae5a702dc8?jr_id=69b8b4b73b74eb1e2c86b2c1

Job Description: About The Role
This role is responsible for technical direction, delivery excellence, and raising engineering standards within a product squad.

You will partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to deliver high-impact initiatives while building a strong, healthy engineering culture.

What You’ll Do
Own the technical direction of your squad’s roadmap
Design scalable, reliable, and maintainable system architectures
Make key technical decisions balancing speed and long-term sustainability
Lead technical discovery and solution design for complex initiatives
Drive refactoring and tech debt prioritization as part of our ongoing operations
Champion the adoption of AI-augmented development practices, leveraging emerging tools to automate rote processes and provide data-driven insights that enhance team skill sets and maximize delivery velocity
Translate and collaborate on the product requirements to have clear technical plans
Collaborate in break down large initiatives into actionable deliverables within the sprint
Scope complex tasks and coordinate team efforts, proactively identifying and removing blockers to maintain delivery velocity
Identify and evaluate risks early and proactively mitigate, and document them
Ensure predictable delivery and alignment with OKRs
Improve development workflows and engineering velocity
Act as a technical mentor and coach to engineers
Lead code reviews, promote best practices, and use AI tools to improve them
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
Collaborate closely with the Engineering Manager on team health, processes, and performance
Partner with Product Managers to shape technical feasibility
Align with other Tech Leads to maintain architectural consistency
Communicate trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders